I like how it's all so down to earth and rational. Not one of those "you can do it, you're the best" style of vids. Helps you way more. Thank you, for everyone who doesn't leave their comments.
@christinecalhoun12975 жыл бұрын
"The right answer is the answer you choose for it." Love it. I feel like people look at their lives this way sometimes, thinking there is a right and wrong path to choose. The more you chill out and go for what you want the less boring your choice will probably be anyway.
@TheCherrypop1215 жыл бұрын
‘you can choose what version of the story is the right answer.’ GIRL !!¡! mind blown
@lostgoth39805 жыл бұрын
Every writer on the planet must watch this. Thank you!
This video is so super charged with positivity and yet totally focused, I wonder how much energy, time, struggle it would have required🤔
@willtitone88445 жыл бұрын
That first point is so true! I absolutely hated writing one particular chapter of my story due to writers block, but my brother (and editor) shocked me when he said it wound up being his favorite chapter.
@ShaelinWrites5 жыл бұрын
Literally somehow people always ending liking the part you hate most haha
@subinitamazumder13075 жыл бұрын
You don't know how much I needed this right now. I can relate to most of these especially the confidence one. Thanks Shaelin ❤️
@alexandriacavallaro19194 жыл бұрын
I saved this a while ago after stumbling upon it, knowing that some rainy day I'd need it. Today was that rainy day, and this didn't disappoint. Thanks for being someone who understands the process and who is willing to share their own struggles. You made someone lost in the loneliness of writing feel a lot less alone today. Thank you. Thank you.
@giselledenbreems39925 жыл бұрын
i am inspired! now i will go write . . . well, outline unfortunately.
@gravelordkim17385 жыл бұрын
I feel like you hugged my soul, bless you
@ShaelinWrites5 жыл бұрын
that's so sweet thank you!
@claremiller99795 жыл бұрын
Great pep talks, Shaelin. Quick tip for number nine - do something that brings you joy every day, for no other reason than you enjoy it. It helps bring that positivity forward when you need it with less effort, don't ask me how but it does :)
@roohvarz99425 жыл бұрын
I needed this. Thank you.
@Artraive5 жыл бұрын
Thanks for this! It's easy to forget these things when you're in the process of writing and insecurity creeps up on you. Next time it does I will rewatch this and kick those thoughts to the curb 😊
@margaretmcdonald1515 жыл бұрын
Everything in this is just amazing! It feels so specific and relevant to writing, and not just pep-talk inspiration !!! Thanks so much 💗
@ShaelinWrites5 жыл бұрын
Thank you!! :D
@matimali15 жыл бұрын
Awesome video. I feel motivated :) And when we're talking about drafting Dan Harmon compared it to making a vase out of clay. Some think that this lump you start with is your ideas and an outline. He thinks that this lump is your first draft and only when you start the second draft you start forming a vase. It really helped me deal with my first drafts feeling weak.
@carlamitce4435 жыл бұрын
I’ll be watching this every day now, thanks!
@LenadyStar5 жыл бұрын
I love this video. The second bit of advice is something I have to remind myself of all the time and it's so great to hear it from someone else.
@InuKagKik35 жыл бұрын
Omg, I needed this so much! Thank you for uploading this!!
@ShaelinWrites5 жыл бұрын
Happy it could help!!
@galaxylucia18985 жыл бұрын
I had a moment yesterday where I felt overwhelmed with "being a great writer" and all of my publishing insecurities just swarmed my brain. I had to step away and remember WHY i like writing, what I LOVE about writing and creating to get back to the sustainable feeling that what I'm doing goes beyond "book sales." Listening to your video has solidified that feel-good, i-love-to-write-because-writing-is-awesome feeling by 300%. Thank you for this video. I hope you know that your pep talk is and will be incredibly helpful for writers now and those to come.
@Xurelbes4 жыл бұрын
I can't describe how much I appreciate this video. I know you direct this towards writers, but it's important for all artists out there. Thank you!
@RashmikaLikesBooks5 жыл бұрын
This is brilliant. I've found a new video revisit when I'm feeling creatively stuck. :)
@daedricdragon59765 жыл бұрын
Thank you for the good advices shaelin. I really found this video helpful. I also agree that self-confidence issues (especially for writers) are a huge problem but can be overcome. The important thing to keep in mind is that, as you said, it's not gonna happen immediately and it will take a long time.
@ShaelinWrites5 жыл бұрын
Thank you :) I think almost all writers I know have had confidence issues, so it's certainly soooo normal, but also not something easy to overcome.
@cheesecakelasagna5 жыл бұрын
Damn! I need this today, thank you!
@Bazzkorg5 жыл бұрын
Some of the best advice I've gotten and won't forget!
@NickSquiggles5 жыл бұрын
I especially needed this today. Thank you! :)
@ShaelinWrites5 жыл бұрын
I'm glad it could help
@NickersonGeneral5 жыл бұрын
I love every new video you make just invigorates me to get writing again. Thank you for the inspiration!
@ShaelinWrites5 жыл бұрын
Good luck with that writing then!!
@Ari-ih5un5 жыл бұрын
Perfect timing, I'm just getting back into writing after another "break" (aka stopping to research and world build because I fear I don't know enough to write stories and people outside my experiences) Thank you. I needed this
@ShaelinWrites5 жыл бұрын
Good luck getting back to it!!
@meli.o.72454 жыл бұрын
Omg number 7!!! i feel like that all the time! Thank you for all these great advice!
@cjpreach5 жыл бұрын
Shaelin - Great insights. Truly. Every one of us who follows the advice of this video increases his or her chance of success at least 100 fold. Getting it wrong on any one of your 9 points could short-circuit a writer's progress. And, yes, I needed this for my own progress. Thank you for another helpful video.
@ShaelinWrites5 жыл бұрын
Thanks so much
@aaliyahkatarina77915 жыл бұрын
Thank you Thank you Thank you Thank you THANK YOU!!! 😍 😍 😍
@ShaelinWrites5 жыл бұрын
You're very welcome!! :D
@TomorrowWeLive5 жыл бұрын
Related to so many of these sooo much
@desertgecko45494 жыл бұрын
Aspiring authors should watch this video every few months. Thanks, Shaelin, for the fantastic advice. Now, if I could just figure a way to tape this video to my mirror next to my morning affirmations...
@oni102315 жыл бұрын
Sis i needed this thank you
@macronencer5 жыл бұрын
It's not often I see a video with nearly 500 likes and 0 dislikes! And with good reason. Thank you for the pep talks :)
@samwallaceart2885 жыл бұрын
That last point on positivity hit home. Thanks
@kal-muzel8755 жыл бұрын
I wish I watched this yesterday instead of studying for the canceled SAT now... Thanks Shaelin for the videos ^^
@gabe61willys5 жыл бұрын
I needed that. Thank you
@nikolaistepanov2827 Жыл бұрын
Great video! Thanks for making it, I am currently wrting my final disertation at uni and your video is helpping me a lot to keep on writing. :))
@mountainmate2765 жыл бұрын
Best video for writers ever, thank you!!!
@Alena-yu5dg5 жыл бұрын
Thank you so much Shaelin! I really needed to hear those things. And I'm watching this over and over again. It gives me a boost of energy, motivation and self confidence every time! ❤
@wonderlust13085 жыл бұрын
I was preaching with this! Thank you so very much! I’m gonna try listen to this everyday lol -or at least remind myself of these points everyday-
@jessicafoster64402 жыл бұрын
I like this. It's exactly what I needed today.
@pinkypromisevintage5 жыл бұрын
Thank you for this.
@alannothnagle5 жыл бұрын
Truly excellent. Thank-you.
@englishnerd55805 жыл бұрын
Fantastic! Thanks, Shaelin! ❤️
@snipeknite96145 жыл бұрын
I’m new to your channel and I really like your advice on so many subjects. Looking forward for more of your videos
@heybella28675 жыл бұрын
Wow. I needed to hear all that. Thank you!
@tigerlily-px5ng5 жыл бұрын
Thank you soooo much for this video, I feel so inspired now! :)
@deeplygazingable5 жыл бұрын
Thank you, Universe for guiding me to Shaelin's video 😍😍😍
@abantorprolaap5 жыл бұрын
This was really helpful, Shaelin. Thank you.
@syenindiaa58884 жыл бұрын
Thank you, Shaelin.
@siobhanm96905 жыл бұрын
this is exactly what i needed
@rodschmidt89524 жыл бұрын
Dr. Seuss (Theodore Geisel) one wrote that it looks like he just sat down and dashed of his drawings, but they took many hours of labor
@lydiamacclaren64135 жыл бұрын
This was a great video to watch before going to write 😊
@bmcdermott5 жыл бұрын
This is exactly what I needed now after starting a difficult new project. Thank you!
@victoriannecastle5 жыл бұрын
Stick with writing novels. :) We'll be sad if you become a motivational speaker. By the way, can you make a video about best literary fiction---since it is the genre you read. Something like my `favorite literary novels.` I'm looking for best prose, style of writing right now. Not exactly best plot. Any recommendation?
@ShaelinWrites5 жыл бұрын
You can check out my goodreads where I have a favourite shelf as well as shelves for my favourite books of every year! Link is in the description :) I really have to make an updated favourites book video at some point though!
@ScullyPop5 жыл бұрын
I'm just getting started here. I have written two thrillers. Very hard at points.
@arian_the_worm5 жыл бұрын
Yay, 0 dislikes! Let's keep it that way, everyone!
@agagagagagyo5 жыл бұрын
Arian Soon well there's one now, probably because of that same retarded ad that's on all these writing channels
@lordvaderbossofdoom39603 жыл бұрын
2yrs later, there's a dislike now but only 1. So that means: still going strong!
@justluc85565 жыл бұрын
Thank you Shaelin ❤️
@cwfcwfcwf5 жыл бұрын
Nice video, Shaelin. :)
@Knarsens5 жыл бұрын
Well, I guess I'll go write then!
@ShaelinWrites5 жыл бұрын
yassssss
@hayleehaux24585 жыл бұрын
Holy shit I needed number 7 Ive never heard of anyone else feeling this way
@hayleehaux24585 жыл бұрын
@@justinliu2665 uh nobody asked man
@gopro_audio5 жыл бұрын
love the sound effects!
@boredfangerrude5 жыл бұрын
"Your creativity is infinite." I wish my brain would conform to that instead of working for an hour or two then saying "Let's continue tomorrow!". *SIGH*
@ShaelinWrites5 жыл бұрын
mooood
@gristlevonraben5 жыл бұрын
Thank you, great speech. You make a great point about one person's creativity is never going to be the same as another's, but can be just as good. I want to share with you a video Stephen King made recently that mimicked a bit, your video last year on whether or not to pre-plan your plot and outline it or not. I thought of you and thought you might like to see it. He discusses it somewhere in the middle. Its a question and answer session at a university, Maine or Massachusetts. Its called, on youtube, 'Stephen King on Twilight, 50 Shades of Grey, and Lovecraft and More...'
@RebeccaYoder5 жыл бұрын
Great video! I liked the perfectionist part.
@justinliu26655 жыл бұрын
You are blocked
@wonderlust13085 жыл бұрын
Also, I LOVE point 4!
@samimoon73915 жыл бұрын
5:58 😂 awe
@dalemills29064 жыл бұрын
Thanks
@nightmeres28015 жыл бұрын
thank you for being real
@justine275 жыл бұрын
Thank you so much ! You can't even imagine how much I needed to hear this. I have a story in my mind since I were barely 10. Now I am 22 and I feel like I create such a strong world with original ideas ! But the thing is: I'm such a PERFECTIONIST and it...sucks ahah. Thanks to open my mind today 😁 Ps: hope I write in a good english ^^. I'm french and always practicing on my english 😆
@ShaelinWrites5 жыл бұрын
Being a perfectionist is...so hard. I feel you on that one. And your english is perfect!
@c-hwilliams1565 жыл бұрын
Thank you for this. :)
@greentokyo5 жыл бұрын
I love this video
@oneautumnleaf52705 жыл бұрын
Can you do a explanation video for psychic distance? I'm confused when I should zoom in and out.
@ShaelinWrites5 жыл бұрын
I've got a video on psychic distance scheduled for next week!
@billyalarie9293 жыл бұрын
shaelin: "it's like it's a math equation" me: ".....that never even ever really even ends in the end!"
@hatezis5 жыл бұрын
Thank you
@3polygons5 жыл бұрын
It's almost scary (well, not really ;) ) how a lot of this applies to illustration, comics, 3D, other fields. Without matching in the specifics - obviously- I had those struggles/came to several of those conclusions, back in the day.
@justinmartin44075 жыл бұрын
For point 8. Stephen King pretty much single handedly lifted horror into the top 5 grossing fiction genres. If you write horror, Stephen King's success helps you. The more good books there are, the more books people buy.
@boredfangerrude5 жыл бұрын
There's some story tellers whose health is ruined to make their story great. *cough* Mangaka (Manga or Japanese comic artists) *cough*
@thistle8175 жыл бұрын
Good stuff
@serahbrandenn4345 жыл бұрын
7:20 is my biggest problem
@ShaelinWrites5 жыл бұрын
It's one I struggle with SO MUCH too
@rodschmidt89524 жыл бұрын
So when we compare two stories, one of which came from a flow-state and the other took a lot a laborious working-on, your perception is biased because you know about the process; but how do OTHER readers compare them?
@MrGarg-py3ul4 жыл бұрын
I just want to give 100 likes to this video.. Unfortunately, KZbin doesn't provide that feature. Thank you so so much :)
@BlakeStylinson3 жыл бұрын
ily shaelin
@codyroberts80555 жыл бұрын
Things worth doing are hard, and that's okay
@sami69985 жыл бұрын
12 days of being posted and not a single dislike
@rodschmidt89524 жыл бұрын
When you find yourself falling into a negative mindset -- use that for a character?
@elisa4620 Жыл бұрын
That's a constructive way to look at it :) I do that for hurtful moments too. When people are being (consciously or not) mean and hurtful. I've started to list these moments to use them as inspiration for my stories.
@kishalaysinha30194 жыл бұрын
V. can be in active condition even beyond nineties according to some medical books I have read. (Of course, I don't know if this is true.) Why am I so interested in esoteric topics? Actually, I am a voracious omnivorous reader Who is interested in all subjects under the sun. - G
@Xarfax321 Жыл бұрын
"We choose to go to the Moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard; because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one we intend to win, and the others, too." - JFK
@0ptimuscrime5 жыл бұрын
Shaelin confirmed for 9/11
@anicastro69203 жыл бұрын
Garghh, the first one hit me like a brick. The second one hit me like a backpack. The third one whacked me with the truth. I'm going to be run over by a gold-filled carriage by the rest, aren't I? Answer from future me: Yes. Gosh, thank you so, so much. I'm sure everybody is shouting their gratitude too.
@torrinmaag53313 жыл бұрын
7:00 - Shaelin destroys Neo-Platonic philosophy with Facts and Logic!!!
@torrinmaag53313 жыл бұрын
Jokes aside, this is a really helpful video for my struggles as a philosopher. Thanks for putting this out for us!
@miaththered5 жыл бұрын
Thank you.~
@sangria-margarita5 жыл бұрын
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@ShaelinWrites5 жыл бұрын
@rodee16715 жыл бұрын
LOL fetus.
@bertiepimplebum56334 жыл бұрын
Nobody can completely master the English language. Yet ...all writers try to do so. What fools they are. (UK)